complich8’s journal

So a long time ago, I realized that I wake up better with music helping me along. But the last year or so I’ve been using my cell phone as an alarm clock (’cause it’s always on a charged battery and has good clock synch).
Yesterday I tried the music thing again, using an at-job [...]

*Caution: nothing but geek-content here*
So Apache 2.2 has a couple of “stable” mpm’s, namely prefork and worker.
Prefork is the old tried-and-true method, where the server spawns $StartServers httpd processes, and on-demand starts additional up to $MaxClients. Each subprocess handles $MaxRequestsPerChild requests, then dies and is replaced as needed.
Worker, on the [...]

So I finally did it. After years of not having a car, after months of public transportation, and after a week of having accepted a job offer and wondering how I’d get there, I finally got a car.
I was basically down to an Altima or a Charger (since my brother pointed out it’s basically [...]

The tracker I admin seems to be undergoing a bit of a syn flood, and the tcp_syncookies tools weren’t helping. My ip_conntrack table was filling at 65536 connections, and the tracker just wasn’t talking to anyone as a result. Lots of packets falling out, lots of full tables. Not sure if it’s [...]

Today I got my roommate to take me car-fitting. Basically I went around to different dealerships, asking them about what cars they thought I’d fit in, and trying them on. Had a couple choices in mind I particularly wanted to try.
Now, being that I’m 6′8 and in the >300lb range, this isn’t as [...]